The world our children will inherit tomorrow is born in the schools we build today

On
Friday 8th December 2017, I spoke in a debate in the House of Lords on
Education. The debate was initiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Justin Welby, and focused on the role of education in building a
flourishing and skilled society.I took the opportunity to talk about the contribution that faith schools
have made, and continue to make, to the education system and to wider
society, and especially about the values they give our children. Below
is a video and transcript of my remarks.

My
Lords. I am grateful to the most Rev Primate for initiating this debate
on a subject vital to the future flourishing of our children and
grandchildren.My Lords, allow me to speak personally as a Jew. Something about our
faith moves me greatly, and goes to the heart of this debate. At the
dawn of our people’s history, Moses assembled the Israelites on the
brink of the Exodus.He didn’t talk about the long walk to freedom. He didn’t speak about the
land flowing with milk and honey. Instead, repeatedly, he turned to the
far horizon of the future and spoke about the duty of parents to
educate their children. He did it again at the end of his life,
commanding: “You shall teach these things repeatedly to your children,
speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the way,
when you lie down and when you rise up.Why this obsession with education that has stayed with us from that day
to this? Because to defend a country you need an army. But to defend a
civilisation you need schools. You need education as the conversation
between the generations.Whatever the society, the culture or the faith, we need to teach our
children, and they theirs, what we aspire to and the ideals we were
bequeathed by those who came before us. We need to teach our children
the story of which we and they are a part, and we need to trust them to
go further than we did, when they come to write their own chapter.We make a grave mistake if we think of education only in terms of
knowledge and skills – what the American writer David Brooks calls the
resume virtues as opposed to the eulogy virtues.And this is not woolly idealism. It’s hard-headed pragmatism. Never has
the world changed so fast, and it’s getting faster each year. We have no
idea what patterns of employment will look like in 2, let alone 20
years from now, what skills will be valued, and which done instead by
artificially intelligent, preternaturally polite robots.We need to give our children an internalised moral Satellite Navigation
System so that they can find their way across the undiscovered country
called the future. We need to give them the strongest possible sense of
collective responsibility for the common good, because we don’t know who
will be the winners and losers in the lottery of the global economy and
we need to ensure its blessings are shared. There is too much “I” and
too little “We” in our culture and we need to teach our children to care
for others, especially those not like us.We work for all these things in our Jewish schools. We give our children
confidence in who they are, so that they can handle change without fear
and keep learning through a lifetime. We teach them not just to be
proud Jews, but proud to be English, British, defenders of democratic
freedom and active citizens helping those in need.Schools are about more than what we know and what we can do. They are
about who we are and what we must do to help others become what they
might be. The world our children will inherit tomorrow is born in the
schools we build today.

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